• Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    So this might be the beginning of a conversation about how initial AI instructions need to start being legally visible right? Like using this as a prime example of how AI can be coerced into certain beliefs without the person prompting it even knowing

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      6 months ago

      It doesn’t even really work.

      And they are going to work less and less well moving forward.

      Fine tuning and in context learning are only surface deep, and the degree to which they will align behavior is going to decrease over time as certain types of behaviors (like giving accurate information) is more strongly ingrained in the pretrained layer.

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      6 months ago

      Why? You are going to get what you seek. If I purchase a book endorsed by a Nazi I should expect the book to repeat those views. It isn’t like I am going to be convinced of X because someone got a LLM to say X anymore than I would be convinced of X because some book somewhere argued X.

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        6 months ago

        In your analogy a proposed regulation would just be requiring the book in question to report that it’s endorsed by a nazi. We may not be inclined to change our views because of an LLM like this but you have to consider a world in the future where these things are commonplace.

        There are certainly people out there dumb enough to adopt some views without considering the origins.

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            6 months ago

            And you don’t think those people might be upset if they discovered something like this post was injected into their conversations before they have them and without their knowledge?

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                6 months ago

                You think this is confined to gab? You seem to be looking at this example and taking it for the only example capable of existing.

                Your argument that there’s not anyone out there at all that can ever be offended or misled by something like this is both presumptuous and quite naive.

                What happens when LLMs become widespread enough that they’re used in schools? We already have a problem, for instance, with young boys deciding to model themselves and their world view after figureheads like Andrew Tate.

                In any case, if the only thing you have to contribute to this discussion boils down to “nuh uh won’t happen” then you’ve missed the point and I don’t even know why I’m engaging you.

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                    6 months ago

                    You have a very lofty misconception about people.

                    I gave you reasoning and a real world example of a vulnerable demographic. You have given me an anecdote about your friends and a variation of “nuh uh” over and over.

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      6 months ago

      Regular humans and old school encyclopedias has been allowed to lie with very few restrictions since free speech laws were passed, while it would be a nice idea it’s not likely to happen

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        6 months ago

        Oh man, what are we going to do if criminals choose not to follow the law?? Is there any precedent for that??